Stories by John Gerritsen

Fewer teenagers drink alcohol than 20 years ago, and it may be because they are spending more time online and at home, new research has found.

Just a week after welcoming the announcement, early childhood groups say new rules attached to the extension of the 20 hours subsidy need a rethink. Audio

The university said it had forecast a deficit of $33 million this year - it's proposing cutting 100-110 academic jobs and 100-150 general staff.

Teacher unions have suspended all industrial action following a meeting with the education minister.

Early childhood had the biggest boosts in the education section of today's Budget.

The Ministry of Education said it was likely Covid-19 had a negative impact, but it was difficult to measure the exact effect.

New Zealand's 10-year-olds have recorded a statistically-insignificant drop in performance in a major international reading test.

Foreign students are returning to New Zealand at a faster rate than before the pandemic began, but polytechnics and schools are missing out, visa figures show.

Primary teachers are considering their next move after rejecting an Education Ministry pay offer.

Hundreds of striking secondary and area school teachers marched on Parliament today to protest for better pay and conditions.

Unions say teaching has been undervalued right across the education sector because the education and care of children is historically viewed as women's work.

School attendance improved dramatically in term one, weekly figures show.

Secondary school principals have told the secondary teachers union they are facing a staffing crisis due to a lack of New Zealand teachers.

Te Pūkenga is hoping increased income from work-based learning such as apprenticeships will more than make up for falling income from other courses this year. Chief executive Peter Winder told...

A support group for early childhood teachers is gathering evidence of what teachers say are traumatic and horrific experiences at a small number of early childhood services.

A briefing shows the government was told in February that the country's largest tertiary institute, Te Pūkenga, must make savings urgently.

Today's announcement follows a series of trials with Year 10 students that found many didn't know how to use capital letters and full stops and didn't know there were 60 minutes in an hour.

Universities and students' associations warn rising living costs are hitting students especially hard this year.

Universities' arms-race against cheats took a step forward today with the activation of software that can detect the use of Artificial Intelligence systems such as ChatGPT.

Poor results in trial NCEA tests have been heart-breaking for teachers and students in Pacific nations.

An independent evaluation says it is likely the design of new NCEA maths and writing tests is unfair on Māori and Pacific teenagers.

Teachers and principals are warning they cannot cope with the pace and scale of changes to the school system.

All five North Island universities say they have started the year with fewer full-time-equivalent domestic students than the same time last year. Audio

A small King Country training centre double-claimed government funding for hundreds of students even after it had been told not to.

The figure was among several paragraphs marked for deletion in a ministerial briefing published by the Ministry of Education.